Otto Luening's Low Speed

This piece is significantly different from the last. Most obviously, it's not using piano sounds at all. It's also about four minutes shorter, meaning it doesn't have the emotional range of Sonic Contours. It's actually quite neat. The sound is what sounds like a wind instrument, some sort of pipe. It's actually flute improvization that has been transposed up a fifth and down an octave and had reverb added. It creates this wavering sound that really reminds me of whale song (mostly because of those crazy offset sounds) right up until the end where the flute starts holding out long notes. The piece doesn't seem to have too much of a sense of change or movement. It does grow right at the beginning, but then it kind of stays the same just using that same offset reverb feel right until the end when it changes to long notes. My conclusion: It has plenty of interesting sounds, but is not terribly exciting music.